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There are a whole lot of historical factors that have played a part in our being where we are today, and I think that to even to begin to understand our contemporary issues and contemporary problems, you have to understand a little bit about that history. ↗

— Wilma Mankiller

#begin #being #bit #contemporary #even

For me, there's a fine line between telling a story that's fictional with lots of details and then removing yourself too much from it, so it's bloodless, a little too fictional. ↗

— Aimee Mann

#bloodless #details #fictional #fine #fine line

I have a 6-year-old, and his thing is to turn on Radio Disney in the car, and I get such an allergic reaction to listening to that music and the context into which it falls. I'm really working on him about that. ↗

— Aimee Mann

#allergic #car #context #disney #falls

If I waited for inspiration every time I sat down to write a song I probably would be a plumber today. ↗

— Barry Mann

#every #every time #i #inspiration #plumber

It's amazing how a competitive nature can turn a negative into something positive. ↗

— Barry Mann

#competitive #how #into #nature #negative

You have certain writing tools but generally creating something from nothing makes one quite mad and Cynthia and I are quite mad you know. ↗

— Barry Mann

#creating #cynthia #generally #i #know

All I had, originally, were pages of Nolan's dialogue. I think his character serves the story in a nice way. He's a Greek chorus for the goings-on in the Hamptons. ↗

— Gabriel Mann

#chorus #dialogue #greek #had #hamptons

I think you kind of hope for people to gush over movies, but I think the opposite way is great sometimes, too. I'd rather have a movie that you're angry about and that you're talking about the next day, than something you forget about when the popcorn goes into the trash. ↗

— Gabriel Mann

#angry #day #forget #goes #great

By the time I'm 90, I hope to have it together. ↗

— Herbie Mann

#hope #i #time #together

If you want to play somebody's music, you'd better go into his house. ↗

— Herbie Mann

#go #his #house #into #music